Meghan McCarty Carino

This was a neighborhood that was known for its charm and its beauty of the old houses.

Like, what are these houses going to look like?

Are they going to be good looking?

That was David Brancaccio, host of the Marketplace Morning Report.

Nicholas Guillaume produced this episode.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino, and that's Marketplace Tech.

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New year, new state AI laws, new showdown with the Trump administration.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

Late last year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to block states from enforcing local AI regulations, something a majority of them have adopted in some form.

We'll talk about what's next in this potential showdown on today's Marketplace Tech Bytes Week in Review.

Plus, Meta is a victim of its own success.

Its new Ray-Ban smart glasses are selling too fast to keep up with demand.

But first, X, formerly Twitter, is facing a global backlash because people are using the platform's AI chatbot Grok to generate non-consensual intimate imagery.

Users have been popping up in the replies of women and sometimes minors tagging Grok and asking it to generate images of them in bikinis or undressed.

The company and its owner, Elon Musk, have both clarified that illegal content on X will not be tolerated.

We spoke with Maria Curie, tech policy reporter at Axios, to learn more.

Then there is this very interesting legal question about whether AI companies or these social media platforms that have these generative AI tools are liable for the content generated by a chatbot.

Historically, internet companies have been shielded from liability for the content that users post.